The open house, at 1922 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE, will feature a performance from 5 to 7 p.m. by Urban Artistry, a nonprofit collective of dancers, artists, historians, musicians, folklorists and documentary filmmakers.

I have to say the mainstream folklorists give these people far less respect than they deserve -- some of this is the "it's not literature until it's reached the century mark" crowd, and some are simply so tenuous in their own position, they don't want to stretch any definitions.

Also, he points out something that may surprise many academic folklorists: the wildman in non-European regions cannot be simply downplayed as a colonial artifact or just the influence of Western ideology.